Designing Creative High Power Teams and Organizations: Beyond Leadership

ISBN-13: 9781606497968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 100 str.

Eric W. Stein

Opis

This book is written to unleash creativity, improve performance and promote innovation. It examines the critical success factors to developing high performance teams through the implementation of robust methods of selection, knowledge sharing and leveraging the power of roles. Designing Creative High Power Teams and Organizations: Beyond Leadership sheds light on how ordinary teams and organizations can be transformed to unleash creativity, improve performance and promote innovation. The book examines the critical success factors to developing high performance teams through the implementation of robust methods of selection, knowledge sharing and leveraging the power of roles. The book also explores the strengths and weaknesses of existing models of organizations, which tend to view organizations as machines to be fixed as opposed to maximizing their creative strengths and ability to learn. Senior executives will appreciate the analysis of the pros and cons of the various strategies for business transformation, which can help them to build creative high performance organizations infused with energy and innovation.

The very best firms today are poietic organizations; thatis, they are exceptional at streamlining the processes ofideation, creation, and production. These poietic organizationsdo two things well: They design and develop highpower teams, and they create an organizational cultureand contextthat supports improvisation, design, experimentation,aesthetic awareness, and strengths development.Great teams exhibit the same characteristics-trust,commitment, and energy.Inside youll learn how to design and develop creativehigh power teams and organizations by first assessing teammember strengths using personality factors and multipleintelligences theory. Following these assessments, how tobest represent and share this information to promote teamdevelopment is illustrated, while examining three typesof high performance teams-improvisational, design, andresearch teams. The second half of this book focuses onthe major models upon which organizations are built, thepros and cons of these choices, and strategy. Using currentresearch, examples and cases, the author articulates waysto transform your organization into a high power andpoietic organization.